Feb 16

Microsoft announces Windows Marketplace and My Phone for Windows Mobile

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No big surprise here — Microsoft just announced Windows Marketplace, a unified storefront for the over 20,000 Windows Mobile applications. As rumored, that means you’ll be able to get apps directly from your phone, and Microsoft has also promised new and better tools for developers in the future. Also confirmed: My Phone, which will let you sync your phone to the cloud with access from the web. Sadly, we’ll have to wait for all this stuff — it’s coming with Windows Mobile 6.5 which isn’t due until later this year. We’ll let you know more as soon as we find out, keep it locked!

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Feb 12

First decent Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots leak out

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They’re still not as intriguing as those early leaks we got, but the first non-crappy Windows Mobile 6.5 shots hit today, and we’re glad to see that terrifying bird wallpaper isn’t hardcoded into the OS as we’d feared. Okay, we kid, but everything does look much nicer with antialiasing enabled, and there are some shots showing new curved tabs and new horizontal scrollbars. Welcome cosmetic changes, sure, but it’s still incremental stuff — we’ll see if Microsoft has anything besides the honeycomb and My Phone in store for us at MWC. Two more at the read link.

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